CHAPTER XX
Under the Lanterns
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and though Nora, Fil, Ingred, and Verity might chafe at being debarred from tennis for a whole week, their adventure in the garden had given them an idea. How it exactly originated could not be decided, for each fiercely claimed the full credit for it. Its evolution, however, was somewhat as follows:
Stage 1. How lovely the garden looked in the evening.
Stage 2. Why should we not all enjoy it some time?
Stage 3. Miss Burd evidently does.
Stage 4. And looked very fascinating in her white dressing-gown.
Stage 5. It was exactly like a fancy dress.
Stage 6. Why should not we all wear fancy dress?
Stage 7. Let us ask Miss Burd to let the hostel have a fancy-dress dance in the school garden.